Russian peasants and American Marines

Excerpt:
Here’s an excerpt from the fifth volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus, a lengthy history of the Russian Revolution titled The Red Wheel. Note the revolutionaries’ utter disdain for the peasants, and thus the soldiers they were depending upon to keep fighting in their defense during World War I. Then too, remember Stalin’s slaughter of the kulaks, years later.

Those who love and work the land are always a grave threat to intellectuals and revolutionaries...

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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